ROME -- Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi resigned Tuesday, saying he opposed bowing to India over the trial of two Italian marines accused of shooting Indian fishermen.

ROME – Italian President Giorgio Napolitano gave centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani a mandate Friday to try and form a Government, the Quirinal Palace said.

ROME-- Until yesterday, it looked very much as if Italy’s elected representatives were playing chicken with their country. In the original version of the game, two drivers drive at each on a straight road and the one that blinks and swerves is chicken. If neither yield, both die.

VATICAN CITY - Catholic cardinals today chose Argentine Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio as leader of the Church, taking the name Pope Francis.

ROME-- Yesterday a group of about 150 parliamentarians demonstrated outside the Palace of Justice in Milan. They then moved into the building to the office of prosecutor Ilda Boccassini.

 ROME -- A fierce fire has destroyed much of the 'City of Science', one of Naples' most important cultural gems, leaving

ROME - Wärtsilä signed a €17.5 million contract with Enipower to supply two Wärtsilä natural gas 34SG internal combustion engines to a cogeneration plant.

VATICAN CITY- Benedict XVI resigned his pontificate and flew out of the Vatican Thursday after pledging to obey his successor to St Peter's Throne.

ROME - In the borough of Haringey in North London a building called the Chocolate Factory is home to over 220 artists and providing work for some 500 peopl

 ROME -- Share values plunged on the Milan stock exchange after a general election left Italy looking ungovernable following a surprise come back by media magnate Silvio Berlusconi.

ROME – Italy’s august Foreign Press Association is set to disappear unless it re-discovers its lost sense of solidarity, a candidate for the club presidency says.

ROME - It is unwise to learn your part when you are already centre stage… even unwiser to change parts.

ROME - Against the current grain of sponsors leaving and events being cancelled, fans of top-level professional sporting events in the capital have something to be cheerful about this spring, becau

ROME - The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Emil Banca, a small cooperative bank forming part of the nationwide ICCREA network of cooperative ba

ROME - 10 Feb was the “Day of Remembrance” (Giorno del ricordo) in which Italy remembers the Italians either killed or forced to leave Yugoslavia at the end of World War II.

ROME - There is a spectre haunting Italy - the spectre of the Beppe Grillo, the Genoese comic turned populist leader of the Five Star Movement (M5S).

ROME - Frediano Manzi, founder of an association against racket and usury, set fire to himself outside the headquarters of the Italian national television channels RAI.